Last year I took my Pentax 67 to the drag races at Thunder Valley Raceway in Noble, Oklahoma and shot a bit of Kodak TMAX-400 film. I also shot with my 4×5 film camera but that is another post. The Pentax was a joy to shoot with and I tried to capture pictures that looked […]

Last drag racing photo for a bit. This is a beautiful souped up Chevy Camaro doing a smokey burnout in the “water box” staging area at Thunder Valley Raceway in Noble, Oklahoma. They do this burnout to warm up the tires and make them good and sticky before each run so the car will launch […]

Back to my drag racing photos. Once again these are from my session at Thunder Valley Raceway in Noble, Oklahoma and feature a Chevy Nova with big tires and a hot rod engine. The car is doing a burnout in the “water box” to warm up the tires for the upcoming run. This photo proves […]

More drag racing – again with alcohol rail drag cars at Thunder Valley Raceway. This car has the big engine air scoop, but doesn’t have the rear wing on the back. Not sure why all the others have it and this one doesn’t. This car was going against a slower car in a bracket race, […]

Looks like I got my timing down on this alcohol rail dragster I photographed on my Toyo VX-125 4×5 film camera at Thunder Valley Raceway in Noble, Oklahoma. His front wheel is lifting, the light is green, and his rear tire is wrinkled up quite well as he launches from the start. When you only […]

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In 2017 I photographed a story about Cody Goodnight, co-owner of Goodnight Farms southwest Oklahoma. The assignment was for Top Producer Magazine, a regular client I work for in the agriculture industry. I photographed Cody and his father, fiancé and employees on their farm in early spring as they were getting ready for the wheat […]

I always love photographing real people doing real things. What could be more fun than photographing volunteer firemen? I got that opportunity recently for Oklahoma Living Magazine. My assignment was to photograph firemen from the Coyle and Woodcrest fire departments in Oklahoma. I had the idea to do a split-shot photo that showed both the […]

During the summer 2017 I took a trip to western Kansas for a long-time client and photographed a couple of stories in the area. For one story I stopped in Clark County and photographed the Ashland Veterinarian Clinic for a story about how the clinic helped local farmers during and after a huge spring prairie […]

I traveled to Tulsa to photograph KOTV’s Leanne Taylor for Oklahoma Living’s “Best of Oklahoma” story for the January 2018 edition of the magazine. It was early December and I had to be there at 7 am to scout for a location. We ended up photographing Leanne after her 9 am television show inside the […]

Had a fun time photographing this story about Shawnee Mills in where else? Shawnee, Oklahoma. I love shooting photos of industrial-type settings and people at work. I worked with one of my favorite writers Hayley Leatherwood on this project. Because of the dust from the flour mill, I had to mount two cameras with lenses […]

I traveled to Garden City, Kansas over the summer to photograph a story about water conservation efforts in the Ogallala Aquifer that covers western Kansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. This huge aquifer is slowly being used up by the massive irrigation efforts by farmers in these western states, trying to feed the growing populations of the […]

I love doing portrait photography and had the opportunity to photograph Virginia McClain for Oklahoma Living Magazine cover story. Virginia lives in Luther, not far from my home in Edmond, and was a long-time employee – 41 years – at Oklahoma Association of Electric Cooperatives – parent to Oklahoma Living Magazine. Her father Carl Booher […]

“Would you like to photograph a story about the Horny Toad at Tinker Air Force Base?” I got that question after answering the phone call from Megan Rossman, photo editor at Oklahoma Today Magazine. “Heck yea!” Didn’t take me long to answer that question. I had originally told Nathan Gunter, editor at Oklahoma Today, about […]

I just love photographing Oklahoma farmers and ranchers. I was hired to photograph the Horn Canna Farm in southwest Oklahoma last year, for publication in the 2017 Oklahoma Agriculture Magazine produced by the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture. I met them at daybreak in late September 2016 and set up for photos before sunrise. They had […]

I photographed five college mascots in late June for a story about student mascots for Oklahoma Living Magazine. It was HOT that day – nearly 100 degrees by the time we got everyone onto the UCO football field in Edmond. I got everything set up and tested before the mascots arrived so that I could […]